# 6.8. Partition Information

This page displays information about partitions on your hard drives.

| The exact information displayed is system-dependent. On some systems, partition information cannot be displayed yet.

On Linux, this information is read from `/proc/partitions`, which is only available if the `/proc` pseudo-filesystem is compiled into the (2.1.x or later) kernel.

The first two columns are the major and minor numbers respectively. The third column, is the number of blocks (usually 1 block = 1024 bytes). The fourth column, is a label for the device.

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## 6.8.1. Section Authors

Matthias Hölzer `<hoelzer@kde.org>`, Helge Deller `<helge.deller@ruhruni-bochum.de>`, Duncan Haldane `<duncan@kde.org>`,and Michael McBride `<mmcbride@ematic.com>`